Cattle grazing silage stubble/ditches

delaval

Do any of the Boardies practice this? If you do for how long? Passed a few fields today with cattle in after silage

quadboy

Hi again, we would usually leave them in for a day or two

delaval

quadboy wrote: »

Hi again, we would usually leave them in for a day or two

You had better get back to Chit Chat:P:P:P:P

Timmaay

Yep, always have! Any disadvantages to it?

mf240

I dont they love the strong grass to pull at when grazing lush after grass.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Yep we always give the heifers a run in the silage fields after

milkprofit

delaval wrote: »

Do any of the Boardies practice this? If you do for how long? Passed a few fields today with cattle in after silage

Always until they have grass eaten
or slurry or fert applied

delaval

We never do as fert and slurry goes out straight away and I worry about regrowths. Am I being over cautious?

mf240

delaval wrote: »

We never do as fert and slurry goes out straight away and I worry about regrowths. Am I being over cautious?

if slurry out they wont touch regrowth. or will they?

Alibaba

In this year of scarce grass at least you'd get a couple of days around the headlands.

Muckit

Yes if it in main block. Easy change them in and out asap. But ferrying cattle for a day or two to outside land is not a runner IMO

hugo29

Always give them a day or two on headlands, put slurry out and they won't touch re growth

Sam Kade

Back in the 70's our neighbour had an acre with his cottage like many people. He used to keep 2 cows and when the acre was grazed out he would let them graze the long acre The 2 cows would always fill a 12 gallon churn every day at peak yield and they never knew what meal was.

grazeaway

yeah alway let them in after the silage. They clean off any grass left on the field and around the headlands. this was very much the case when we did PC as there was usually a bit and getting blown over a trailer and missed on the pick up some where.

do you use a trailing shoe for the slurry during the summer? I can never see the point of throwing out slurry on silage fields espically if the weather has been warm. fair enough if it was a bit cold a misty like last summer but most of the nutrients get evapraoted off and if we get a decent dry spell it'll just sit there and not get washed in. Do you find you get a decent results from it? used to be a way for fellas to get rid of slurry back in the day a round here but i see very few lads throwing it out after silage now. most will spread in spring and then again in authunm to but up grass for winter and into the spring.

Muckit

It's beneficial also if you have an electric fence around ditches. They will eat down the grass under them and ensure the weeds don't start coming in. Oh and they'I dung plenty along it so ya can keep out with the slurry